Category: News

As reported on theguardian.com Offshore windfarms will be built for a record low price in the UK early next decade, after developers bid far more aggressively than expected for a multimillion-pound pot of government subsidies. Industry watchers had expected the guaranteed price for power from windfarms around Britain’s coast to come in somewhere between £70 and £80 […]

The firm wanting to build a £1.3bn tidal lagoon in Swansea said it has reached an agreement with the National Grid over plans to build an £8bn lagoon around Cardiff. Tidal Lagoon Power says that the new project would power every home in Wales, generating cheap electricity. Read more: BBC / Power company: TLP

[Image source: Atlantis Resources] It’s not often we can report a ‘world record’ in our line of work. But here we have one – Two turbines in the Pentland Firth set a world record for monthly electricity production from a tidal stream power station, generating some 700MWh of energy. That’s enough for 2,000 homes! Read […]

SOURCE: Scottish Power Renewables PLANNING CONSENT ALLOWS FOR ‘NEXT GENERATION’ TURBINES AT EAST ANGLIA THREE OFFSHORE WINDFARM ScottishPower Renewables has today (7th August 2017) received planning approval from the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), Greg Clark MP, for the East Anglia THREE offshore windfarm with an output capacity of up to 1,200 megawatts […]

Having been the first energy company in the world to turn on a fully operational tidal power array, Nova Innovation will lead the next stage in expanding the existing Bluemull Sound tidal array to six (maybe more) turbines. Sarah Beattie-Smith, from WWF Scotland, said: “With some of the most powerful tides in Europe, Scotland is well-placed […]

Picture by By Mary and Angus Hogg, CC BY-SA 2.0, Link The West Islay Tidal Energy Farm, with its planned 30 turbines, has been approved by ministers. It will be situated approx. three miles off the south-west coast and will have a peak capacity to generate power equivalent to that needed by 18,000 homes – […]

If you live in Scotland then you are among good company when it comes to your enthusiasm for renewable energy. Scotland had “another extraordinary month” for renewable energy in May, according to environmental groups. This is the tag line the BBC are running with when reporting just how well Scotland does with wind energy as […]